Monday, December 14, 2015

Was Allah Muhammad's domestic servant?

Belgium-based
world famous scholar Dr Koenraad Elst has written in a chapter "How to
deal with Islam" in his book "BJP vis-a-vis Hindu
resurgence" (Voice of India, 1997): "This fact becomes more than
obvious when one studies the context in which these revelations come to
Muhammad. One finds that Allah never fails to confirm what his Prophet
is planning to do in order to serve the latter's cause in a particular
situation. Aisha, the favorite wife of the prophet had seen through
the game and summed up her observation reported by all orthodox traditionalists
"Truly your God seems to have rushed in answering your prayers".
Dayananda Saraswati was not wrong when he characterized the Allah of
the Quran as Muhammad's domestic servant."

However, here one sentence
must be added. It is not easy for a Muslim (i.e. a Muhammadan)
to bear much criticism of Muhammad (let alone see Muhammad for who he
was). It is like telling a child that his father is a rapist, murderer
and a thief. A child who adulates his father will not be able to
accept it even if all the proofs in the world are shown to him. He will instead
call you a liar, hate you for hurting him, curse you and may explode in
anger and hit you physically. A Muslim will genuinely believe that Muhammad was
the MOST PERFECT person, kind and compassionate, merciful. He will
genuinely believe that Muhammad was a champion of women's rights (even though
the truth is exactly the opposite), that Muhammad stopped the practice of
female infanticide, that Arabs used to quarrel with themselves and get drunk,
Muhammad banned drinking of alcohol, united the people and improved their lives
and showed them the true path to God, banned slavery and freed people (whereas
the reality is exactly the opposite, Islam and Muhammad enslaved people). A
Muslim would generally admire and respect Muhammad more than his own parents.
To understand this matter, a Christian reader should imagine being told that
Jesus was a rapist, murderer and a thief, or a Buddhist being told the same
about Buddha, or a Dalit being told the same about Ambedkar. A Hindu should
imagine being told the same about Chhatrapati Shivaji, Swami Vivekananda,
Krishna, Rama etc. That is why Pakistan has the draconian Blasphemy Law
(which gives death for insulting Muhammad). We saw recently how a Governor was
shot dead by his own bodyguard for supporting scrapping of the Blasphemy Law
and how the murderer was treated like a hero, that the judge who sentenced him to death
had to flee Pakistan. The Danish
cartoons on Muhammad in early 2006 also shook the whole world resulting in
nearly 100 deaths worldwide. This shows how strong the spell of Muhammad is on
Muslims.

Coming to Muhammad, there are so many
cases which can be told as proof that Muhammad made up the verses to serve his
own cause.

1) One day Muhammad visited one of his wives, Hafsah,
the daughter of Omar. He saw Mariyah, Hafsah's Coptic maid. He sent Hafsah out
telling her that her father wanted to see her. When she went out, he called
Mariyah and had sex with her in Hafsah’s bed. Hafsah found out that her father
had not send for her and returned to find her illustrious husband, naked,
between the legs of her maid. She screamed and started making a scandal.
Muhammad tried to calm down his hysteric wife and promised her not to approach
Mariyah again while pulling up his pants, and asked her to keep the incident, a
secret. Hafsah informed Aisha who with a group of other co-wives
confronted Muhammad. Then Muhammad claimed, God revealed Surah 66 Tahrim
('Banning') in which he "rebuked" Muhammad telling him:

1. O Prophet! Why do you ban (for yourself) that which Allâh
has made lawful to you, seeking to please your wives? And Allâh is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

2. Allâh has already ordained for you (O men), the
dissolution of your oaths. And Allâh is your Maula (Lord, or Master,
or Protector, etc.) and He is the All-Knower, the All-Wise.

3. And (remember) when the Prophet (SAW) disclosed a matter in
confidence to one of his wives (Hafsah), so when she told it (to another i.e.
'Aishah), and Allâh made it known to him, he informed part thereof and left a
part. Then when he told her (Hafsah) thereof, she said: "Who told you
this?" He said: "The All-Knower, the All-Aware (Allâh) has told
me".

4. If you two (wives of the Prophet SAW, namely 'Aishah and
Hafsah turn in repentance to Allâh, (it will be better for you), your hearts
are indeed so inclined (to oppose what the Prophet SAW likes), but if you help
one another against him (Muhammad SAW), then verily, Allâh is his Maula (Lord,
or Master, or Protector, etc.), and Jibrael (Gabriel), and the righteous among
the believers, and furthermore, the angels are his helpers.

5. It may be if he divorced you (all) that his Lord will
give him instead of you, wives better than you, Muslims (who submit to Allâh),
believers, obedient to Allâh, turning to Allâh in repentance, worshipping Allâh
sincerely, fasting or emigrants (for Allâh's sake), previously married and virgins.“
[Tarikh Tabari also see Bukhari3.43.648
]

Isn’t Allah
nice to his prophet? He rebukes him for banning himself to have sex
with Mariyah when Allah has made this lawful to him. Then he tells his
beloved prophet that he does not have to keep his words just to appease a bunch
of women. Go aheadAllâh has already ordained
for you the dissolution of your oaths. Allah even tells his
beloved prophet to divorce all of his uppity wives if they are not obedient and
content with his sexual escapades and marry lots of other women who will be
better.

Any person
with an iota of common sense will know that Muhammad made up these verses to
serve his cause. It is here that Aisha is reported to have said "Truly
your God seems to have been very quick in answering your prayers".

2) In one case, Muhammad wanted to have intercourse
with the wife of his foster son Zaid. Here Allah revealed the following in the
Quran:

33.37“Behold! Thou didst say to one who had received the grace
of Allah and thy favour: "Retain you (in wedlock) your wife, and fear
Allah." But you did hide in your heart that which Allah was about to make
manifest: you did fear the people, but it is more fitting that you should fear
Allah. Then when Zaid had dissolved (his marriage) with her, with the necessary
(formality), We joined her in marriage to you: in order that (in future) there
may be no difficulty to the Believers in (the matter of) marriage with the
wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have dissolved with the necessary
(formality) (their marriage) with them. And Allah's command must be fulfilled.
"

How wise! The noblest institution of child adoption is
annulled because Muhammad wanted to have sex with the wife of his foster son.
When this incident is brought up, many Muslims claim that Muhammad did nothing,
God commanded him to marry the wife of his foster son, in Chapter 33, and God's
order had to be followed!

There are so many such passages in the Quran. Below are given just two more.

"Prophet, We have made lawful to you the
wives to whom you have granted dowrise and the slave girls whom God had given
as booty;the daughters of your paternal and maternal uncles
and of your paternal and maternal aunts who fled with you; and any believing
woman who gives herself to the Prophet and whom the Prophet wishes to take in
marriage.This privilege is yours alone, being granted to no
other believer. We well know the duties we have imposed on the
faithful concerning their wives and slave-girls. We grant you this privilege so
that none may blame you. God is forgiving and merciful. (Quran 33:50 )

“You may put of any of your wives you please and take
to your bed any of them your please. Nor is it unlawful for you to receive any
of those whom you have temporarily set aside. That is more proper, so that they
may be contented and not vexed, and may all be pleased with what you give them.
(Quran 33:51 )"

This also
carries another very important thing "Slave girls whom God had given to
you as a booty are lawful to you". This means that God supports the
institution of slavery and gives slave girls as gifts to Muhammad. Firstly, no
God can be a supporter of slavery, this line itself is a clear proof that the
Quran is not from God, since nowhere does it oppose slavery and
institutionalizes slavery. This also conclusively disproves the claim by some
Muslims that Muhammad ended slavery or that Islam abolished slavery. And
secondly, Muhammad made up these verses to serve his own cause.

Aisha, the favorite
wife of Muhammad had seen through this game. A Hadith reports: Narrated Aisha:

"I used to look down upon those ladies
who had given themselves to Allah's Apostle and I used to say, "Can a lady
give herself (to a man)?" But when Allah revealed: "You (O Muhammad)
can postpone (the turn of) whom you will of them (your wives), and you may
receive any of them whom you will; and there is no blame on you if you invite
one whose turn you have set aside (temporarily)." (33.51) I said (to the
Prophet), "I feel
that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires."
(Sahih Al-Bukhari,
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 311)

And as we have seen
Dayananda Saraswati say earlier "Why does this verse inculcate faith in
Mohammad along with that in God, when the Mohammadans profess to believe in
none but God, and hold that none is worthy of sharing homage with Him ? Hence
they can not call God Incomparable. If it be argued that this verse only
teaches that people should have faith in Mohammad as a Prophet, we should kike
to know where is the necessity of Mohammad (being regarded as a Prophet). If God
cannot accomplish his desired object without making him His Prophet, he is
certainly powerless.” (p. 672 of Dayananda Saraswati's book Satyartha Prakash
of 1875, English translation) “Now (the Mohammadan) God Himself has made
Mohammad His partner (in Divine honours, etc.) and has Himself declared this
fact in the Quran. God is so much attached to Mohammad that He has made him His
partner even in paradise. It is useless to call the Mohammadan God Independent
when He is dependent upon Mohammad for every little thing. Such things can
never be found in a revealed book.”

Dayananda Saraswati continues
"Now reader mark ! How clever Mohammad is ! He makes his God say
in this verse that God will love those who follow Mohammad and even their sins
will be forgiven. This shows that the heart of Mohammad was not pure. It
appears that Mohammad (made or) had the Quran made in order to serve his
selfish interests.” (p. 670)

“Now mark the prejudice of God and of His Prophet !
Mohammad like other men of his stamp, was well aware that if he did not stamp
his religion with divine authority it would never flourish, nor would he or his
followers be able to obtain help and power which might help them to live a life
of ease and luxury. All this goes to show that Mohammad knew only too well how
to compass his selfish ends and to deprive others of their due-a fact which
proves that he was no well-wisher of humanity. Such a man can never command the
trust and confidence of good and enlightened men.” (p. 674)

“Who but the Mohammedan God would be so unjust in
fighting and helping others to do the same and so active in causing breaches of
peace ? Now look at this religion, which sanctions wholesale robbery
for the benefit of the Prophet ! Are these people any better than
thugs ? God participates in the crime of robbery when he takes his share of the
loot. He brings disgrace on Himself by favouring such dacoits. We are at a loss
to understand whence came such a book, such a God and such a Prophet in order
to disturb the happy relations between different nations of the world and
thereby, inflict great suffering on them. Had not such faiths flourished in the
world, all would have lived in peace with each other.” (p. 680-81)

As we have said, imagine us
as the creator of the vast Pacific Ocean. The earth is like a drop of water in
the ocean of all the oceans of the world. Then humans on earth are as
insignificant as ants. Imagine some very very small viruses (so small that they
are invisible) in a drop of water somewhere down the Pacific and if one of the
viruses claims to other viruses that he is our Messenger and that we keep
making it legal for that virus to dissolve his oaths, marry his foster son's
wife, legalize him to marry slave girls, loot etc!